بَاتُواthey spent the night, they were overtaken

Example sentences

• فقضى لهم حياة وقضى عليهم مماتا،

  So He decreed for them life, and He decreed upon them death.

  باتا — they spent the night. Past-tense verb, 'they spent the night', read as a plural to match the 'how many' before it. The verb carries its subject in its ending; the exclamatory frame counts how many passed the night a certain way.

  From: God's Sovereignty in Creation →